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RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 517-522Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-011-2187-1
Keywords
Cartilage; Interleukin-1 (IL-1); Aggrecanase (ADAMTS-4); Specificity protein-1 (Sp1); Inhibition; Regulation
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [MOP-57848]
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Proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) stimulate cartilage extracellular matrix aggrecan degradation by aggrecanases or ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motif) during the pathogenesis of arthritis. Human aggrecanase-1 (ADAMTS-4) gene promoter contains at least one specificity protein-1 (Sp1)-transcription factor-binding site. We investigated the previously unknown role of Sp1 in the regulation of ADAMTS-4 gene expression in human articular chondrocytes. Mithramycin and WP631, the specific inhibitors of guanine cytosine (GC)-rich Sp1 DNA binding, partially suppressed IL-1-induced ADAMTS-4 expression and activity. Genetic inhibition of Sp1 by antisense oligonucleotide or by small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated Sp1 knockdown partially inhibited ADAMTS-4 induction by IL-1. Sense oligonucleotide and negative control siRNA had no effect. In contrast, cytomegalovirus promoter-driven Sp1 overexpression further enhanced IL-1-induced ADAMTS-4 expression and activity. Constitutively expressed glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was not affected by any of the agents. These results provide pharmacological and genetic evidence for the importance of Sp1 in ADAMTS-4 gene regulation by IL-1. Thus, Sp1 could be potentially targeted to reduce arthritis-associated cartilage aggrecan loss.
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